This week, Digital Extremes has announced plans to bring popular free-to-play shooter Warframe to Nintendo's hybrid console, too.

Doom and Wolfenstein port developer Panic Button is porting the game to the hardware, so you can expect it to be a pretty impressive take on the game - the Bethesda conversions the studio have done so far have been impeccable.

The co-op shooter will be the first game of its type to launch on the console. As a co-operative shooter, you're tasked with teaming up with other players and taking on computer-controlled enemies to improve your armour - the eponymous Warframe.

The game takes place across the solar system and has received many free expansions in its lifetime so far - which will assumedly all launch with the game when it comes to Switch.

So far, Warframe is a bonafide success story as far as free-to-play games go: the title has attracted over 30 million players across Steam, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

Hopefully, in coming to Switch, the game will attract even more of an audience - it's certainly got the install-base to attract more.

Ahead of the Switch launch, Digital Extremes also announced a lot of content updates are in the works.

First up, there's Fortuna - a new update that will introduce a new zone for players to explore, a new faction to collect gear from and new items (like hoverboards!) coming to the game.

After that, another update called Codename: Railjack will introduce cooperative spaceship combat in an ambitious ground-to-space setup. If all this sounds like your jam, you're in luck with Warframe coming to Switch.

Warframe Beasts of Sanctuary update for PC, PS4, Xbox One

Digital Extremes' newest Warframe update has been announced - and it looks very good indeed.

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So when's it due to drop? That's the thing - there isn't even a release window revealed for the port yet.

But considering Digital Extremes has committed to announcing the port at this point - alongside these other content updates - it could be argued that we'll see the game hit Nintendo Switch sooner rather than later.

The game is a good fit for the Switch - a decent pick-up-and-play title you can tackle in short bursts - and as such we're excited about seeing it hit the hybrid console.